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Died. T.H. (Terance Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings, 71, elegant designer and interior decorator for such clients as Doris Duke and Aristotle Onassis; of a heart attack; in Athens, where he had lived since 1964. Robsjohn-Gibbings moved to the U.S. from his native London in the '30s and set up shop on Manhattan's East Side. To re-create the "timeless" furniture of the classic period, he spent years studying ancient Grecian art. A sprightly, caustic author, he took on the antiques business and modern art in two bestselling books: Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale (1945) and Mona Lisa...
...they come up seven." Ceilings are now a standard and skimpy eight feet, and it is a rare apartment that has a working fireplace. Complains Decorator Elizabeth Draper: "The rooms are so neutral: they have no moldings or cornices, no 'eyebrows,' no character." Echoes Designer T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings: "Apart from their shabbiness, the interior spaces are so ignoble. The ceilings are too low-the areas are just not worthy!" The grand old apartments are still perhaps the city's best, still command towering prices (the remaining rentals along Park and Fifth Avenues run as high...
...Park Avenue. The Heller solution was. in effect, to let the paintings take over the apartment. Victor Ganz, manufacturer of costume jewelry, found a different answer for his 13-room Park Avenue apartment. The Ganzes own America's biggest private collection of Picassos, and called in Designer Robsjohn-Gibbings to find a way to keep the Picassos from overpowering the rooms. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Mrs. Ganz selected massive pieces of authentic Italian Renaissance and Spanish Gothic furniture, mixed them with 17th century English chairs, created a remarkably effective multi-century effect that recognizes Picasso's presence but does...
Concerning Robsjohn-Gibbings klismoi [June 2], may I predict now that these lovely, graceful, classically inspired chairs will not catch...
...almost a quarter of a century, Designer T. H. (for Terence Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings successfully designed stark, austere contemporary furniture for a number of top U.S. manufacturers. A decorator, architect, author (GoodBye, Mr. Chippendale), and longtime admirer of the durability of classic Greek forms, Gibbings grew increasingly disenchanted with the coldness and built-in "artificial obsolescence" of most modern furniture. Poking through museums and private art collections all over the U.S. and Europe, he cribbed ideas from the drawings on ancient Greek pottery and bas-reliefs. This week in Athens, a new line of classically inspired furniture based on Gibbings...